Juicy prose of Асимана is inhabited by charming cranks and colourful clever men : here a grandfather is a haughty man, brave man and hotshot swindler, merchant and spy| and grandmothers able tittle-tattle on six languages, and aunt runaway from Germany during Second world and remaining in persuasion, that it is fated jewries all to lose at least twice in life. And among this noisy family is a boy that thirsts to see the large world, but not nearly ready to to the end from Egypt. With tenderness remembering the lost paradise of the childhood, Асиман gives to the reader the real adventure novel elegant and witty.